Introduction To Science, Practice and Ethics: Clinical Psychology

Introduction to
Clinical Psychology
Science, Practice and Ethics
Chapter 3
Psychological Models in Clinical
Psychology
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The Role of Theoretical Models

How models help
Suggest patterns of human experience

Can be tested
Discarded when no longer useful
Dangers of models
Can distort observations

One-dimensional models are limited
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed
psychoanalysis as
(1) a theory of psychological development,
personality, and neurosis;
(2) a method for studying symbolic cognitive
processes and the unconscious; and
(3) a technique of psychotherapy.
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
There are 3 intertwined strands:
a structural theory of personality and the
topography of the mind
a theory of development positing a series of standard
psychosexual stages, each marked by
a sensual focus on a particular part of the body

the need to confront a certain challenging conflict
the central concept of the unconscious, referring to
the hidden workings of dynamic mental processes

that cause most emotionally-significant behavior
THE STRUCTURAL THEORY

ID
pleasure principle/primary process
EGO
reality principle/secondary process
SUPEREGO
conscience
ego ideal
ID/EGO conflicts can cause neurotic anxiety

conflicts between the EGO and external
reality can cause realistic anxiety

conflicts between the EGO and SUPEREGO
can cause moral anxiety
The it (or, the id) . . .

The minds of newborn children have practically no
structure initially, so infants tend to go directly into

action to satisfy the demands of the instincts; the
guiding principle is the pleasure principle.
Infants thinking patterns are dominated by
hallucinatory images, the type we are familiar with
when we are daydreaming or dreaming. This form of
cognition is known as primary process, a form of
wishful thinking that coincides with the infants
difficulty in separating fantasy from reality.
The me (or, the ego) . . .

Children learn to follow the reality principle in
dealing effectively with lifes demands. This coincides

with the development of the ego. The id is the original
pleasure-seeking mind, driven by instincts, and the
ego is the newer, realistic one, driven by the need to
compromise with the demands, pressures, and
frustrations imposed by the outside world. Threats,
internal or external, create anxiety, a signal to the ego
to deal effectively and practically with the problem.
A more mature thinking style develops, secondary
process thinking, that realistic, pragmatic, goaloriented, rational cognitive activity that we associate
with waking life in adulthood.
The over-me (or, the superego) . . .

The superego is an ideal ego that, as the
conscience, exercises moral censorship on

behavior.
It contains the commands and prohibitions
that we learn from parents, teachers, and
others in authority during our childhood years.
It both arises from, and allows resolution of,
the Oedipus complex that all humans have to
negotiate at about the age of five
STAGES OF PSYCHOSEXUAL
DEVELOPMENT
ORAL
ANAL
PHALLIC
The Oedipus Complex

The Case of Little Hans
LATENCY
GENITAL
DEFENSE MECHANISMS
these were described by Anna Freud
examples include:
REPRESSION
PROJECTION
DENIAL
defense mechanisms operate unconsciously
to protect the ego from threats from the id

and from external reality
The oral stage (0 18 months)

Newborn infants are already equipped with a
sucking reflex that allows them to feed from

the mothers breast or from the bottle, but the
breast or the bottle are not always available.
The resulting frustration is the first significant
psychological challenge faced by the infant.
Handled poorly, this frustration can lead to
fixation.
Unconsciously, the oral stage brings the
hidden threat of the loss of the parent who
brings food.
The anal stage (18 months to 4 years)

The conflicting tendencies are between being tidy,
clean, dutiful, and cooperative versus being messy,

rebellious, and uncooperative.
Ideally, parents will approach toilet-training
sensitively, presenting neither too great nor too small
a challenge at each point.
If fixation occurs, the child may develop personality
traits that are symbolically related to toileting
behavior:
Uncooperative, mean, stingy, and emotionally
constricted versus generous, giving, careless,
wasteful, and emotionally expressive.
The phallic stage (4 - 6 years)

Themes of rivalry with the same-sex parent
for the attention of the other; the Oedipus

Complex is resolved partly by repression
and partly by identification, though the
process differs for boys and girls.
The girl accepts castration as an
accomplished fact, whereas the boy fears the
possibility of its occurrence (Freud,
1924/1989, p. 665).
The latency stage (7 to puberty)

Either a time when whatever may be going on
psychosexually is hidden or latent,

or a stage in which the childs ego functioning
develops as he or she learns to deal with the
practicalities of school, peer relationships,
etc.
The genital stage (puberty to young

adulthood)
After puberty comes the genital stage in the
teenage years, in which young adults learn to

focus their sexual interests upon another
person.
DEFENSE MECHANISMS
these were described by Anna Freud
examples include:
REPRESSION
PROJECTION
DENIAL
defense mechanisms operate unconsciously
to protect the ego from threats from the id

and from external reality
Psychoanalysis: Influences on Clinical

Psychology
First systematized school of psychotherapy
Several psychodynamic therapies developed
in reaction to Freudian psychoanalysis

Unconscious processes
Psychological testing
Projective tests
Interpersonal and Neo-Freudian

Models
ALFRED ADLER (1870-1937)

Adler accepted Freuds psychodynamic theory and
agreed that
symptoms are purposeful

dreams are meaningful
early childhood experiences are highly significant
but he rejected
the stages of psychosexual development
the Oedipus complex
and stressed instead each individuals search for a
positive role within the family, the prototype for all

other social interactions
ADLER (continued)
in the process we form conclusions that
contain errors and partial truths together with

accurate judgments
we create a cognitive map or life-style, an
implicit set of convictions that serve as guides
for dealing with other people
ADLER (continued)
These implicit convictions include
the self-concept (the sense of who one is)
the self-ideal (the sense of who one should
be)
the world-concept (the sense of what the
natural and social world demands)
the ethical convictions (the sense of what is
right and wrong)
ADLER (continued)
discrepancies between self-concept and self-
ideal may result in inferiority feelings that

could expand into the pathological inferiority
complex
this is a social view of neuroses
feelings of inferiority to others is debilitating,
but constructive engagement in interpersonal
relationships is the key to a creative and
fulfilling life
The NEO-FREUDIANS
the terms include ego psychology, object relations,
and the cultural school of psychoanalysis

neo-Freudians was the label both for the innovators
in general and for the specific sub-group who gave
prominence to interpersonal relationships in
personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy
Erich Fromm, Karen Horney, and Harry Stack
Sullivan represent the Adler-like neo-Freudians who
rejected the libido theory and stressed the
importance of interpersonal issues
Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

Freud believed that in return for the advantages of
living in a civilized society we have to restrict our

personal freedom, making it necessary to repress our
instinctive urges
Fromm was more optimistic, viewing aggression as
caused by the frustrations of living in human society,
not by an automatic, innate drive
he explained the sense of inferiority experienced by
many women in terms of how they were treated in
contemporary society
Karen Horney (1885-1952)

recognizing that what is normal in one
culture may be seen as abnormal in another,

Horney emphasized cultural rather than
biological factors in human development,
especially concerning gender differences
children begin life with basic anxiety, but it
can be overcome with appropriate nurturing
from parents or others
Karen Horney (continued)

children who have been deprived of this vital
parental love develop low self-esteem and

patterns of impairment in social relationships
we try to deal with anxiety by our orientation
toward people; we can move towards,
against, or away from others
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949)

Sullivan was born in the United States and
became known as the founder of the

Washington school of psychiatry, in addition
to having been a prominent figure in the
cultural school
viewed personality as the enduring pattern of
social interactions
Sullivan (continued)
the self consists of the reflected appraisals of
parent figures and other significant adults

if parents are excessively critical, children
grow up to criticize themselves and thereby
live with anxiety. If parents are loving, children
grow up capable of love, fellowship and good
social adjustment in general
INTERPERSONAL THEORY
interpersonal theory stems from the work of
Harry Stack Sullivan, who believed that we

come to treat ourselves as we have been
treated by our parents
early relationships and encounters with
others, interpersonal transactions, shape our
view of ourselves and create behavioral
tendencies that persist over the life span
INTERPERSONAL THEORY
(continued) . . .
mental disorders are seen as rooted in the
patterns of early interpersonal relationships

specific life events and current interpersonal
issues are strongly linked to clients present
mood states
altering the interpersonal environment can
help clients alleviate their symptoms and
reduce excessive, negative emotions
Interpersonal Models: Influences on

Clinical Psychology
the interpersonal model has helped bring
clinical psychologists into contact with social

psychiatry
Harry Stack Sullivan, Gerald Klerman, and
other psychiatrists established an image of
psychiatry different from the traditional
medical model of symptoms and diseases
Influences continued
interpersonal psychotherapists have shown that one
may adopt a psychodynamic orientation without

accepting traditional psychoanalysis
many psychodynamic therapies emphasize early
childhood relationships over unconscious drives and
conflicts
interpersonal psychotherapy is a contemporary
empirically supported psychotherapy
Humanism
a loosely grouped set of approaches to
psychotherapy
Emphasize potential for positive development
and personal growth
Related to existentialists
Existential philosophy emphasizes freedom to
choose
With freedom comes responsibility
Client-Centered Therapy
Carl Rogers (1902- 1987)
Developed thinking about psychotherapy in
the 1940s and 1950s

Landmark paper in 1957
Essential conditions for therapeutic change
Assumptions of client-centered
therapy
Actualizing tendency
Orgasmic Valuing Process
Trusting our innate sense of what feels right people will
move toward actualizing tendency
Conditions of Worth
Therapeutic Principles
Nondirective
Therapist-offered conditions
Empathy
Unconditional Positive Regard
Genuineness
Humanism: Influences on Clinical

Psychology
Springboard to a variety of forms of psychotherapy
Existential analysis
Client-centered therapy
Gestalt therapy
Therapist-Offered Conditions central to strong
therapist-client alliance across therapies

Fostered research on process of psychotherapy
Behavioral Models
Behavioral Models: Key Assumptions

Rejection of medical model
Abnormal normal continuum
Basis in experimental psychology
Direct modification of overt behavior
Focus on maintaining factors
Commitment to experimental evaluation of
treatment
Behavior Therapy: History

South Africa
Joseph Wolpe (Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition,
1958)
England
Hans Eyesenck
Monte Shapiro
United States
John B. Watson
B.F. Skinner
Learning Theory
Classical conditioning
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
Unconditioned Response (UCS)
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Conditioned Response (CR)
Operant Conditioning
Reinforcement
Schedules of reinforcement
Extinction
Behavioral Models: Influences on

Clinical Psychology
Challenged psychodynamic myths
e.g., symptom substitution
Single case experimental design

Extensive research on behavioral therapies
Empirically supported treatments
Cognitive Model
Cognitive Models: Development

Aaron Beck
Cognitive therapy
Albert Ellis
Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy
Albert Bandura
Social Learning Theory
Cognitive Models: Key

Assumptions
Behavior and emotions are influenced by
thoughts and beliefs about events more so

than the events themselves
Expectancies
Outcome expecations
Self-efficacy
Observational learning
Cognitive Models: Links to

Behavior Therapy
Commitment to empirical research
Ties to experimental psychology (cognitive
psychology)
Social learning theory an expansion of classic
learning theory
Cognitive Models: Influences on

Clinical Psychology
Empirically supported
Panic disorder
Social anxiety
Depression
Bulimia
Increased in popularity
Popular among clinicians

Popular among clinical scientists

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Introduction to

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The Role of Theoretical Models

Suggest patterns of human experience

Can distort observations

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a sensual focus on a particular part of the body

the central concept of the unconscious, referring to

the hidden workings of dynamic mental processes

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THE STRUCTURAL THEORY

ID/EGO conflicts can cause neurotic anxiety

reality can cause realistic anxiety

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The it (or, the id) . . .

structure initially, so infants tend to go directly into

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The me (or, the ego) . . .

dealing effectively with lifes demands. This coincides

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The over-me (or, the superego) . . .

conscience, exercises moral censorship on

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The Oedipus Complex

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defense mechanisms operate unconsciously

to protect the ego from threats from the id

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The oral stage (0 18 months)

sucking reflex that allows them to feed from

The anal stage (18 months to 4 years)

clean, dutiful, and cooperative versus being messy,

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The phallic stage (4 - 6 years)

for the attention of the other; the Oedipus

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The latency stage (7 to puberty)

psychosexually is hidden or latent,

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The genital stage (puberty to young

teenage years, in which young adults learn to

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defense mechanisms operate unconsciously

to protect the ego from threats from the id

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Psychoanalysis: Influences on Clinical

in reaction to Freudian psychoanalysis

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Interpersonal and Neo-Freudian

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ALFRED ADLER (1870-1937)

symptoms are purposeful

positive role within the family, the prototype for all

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contain errors and partial truths together with

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ideal may result in inferiority feelings that

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and the cultural school of psychoanalysis

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Erich Fromm (1900-1980)